[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

It was just before Accy became "Hyndburn" I worked for the Electrical and Street Lighting between 1960 and 1965 approx

We had several members of the street lighting dept, who were in the retained fire section, I used to call them Mantle Squeezers.
Daft enough to squeeze a gas mantle to see if it still worked.
Two of them got caught out ringing in false fire calls, ended up in court, its a long story of how I found out, then weeks of of checking call out records, and listening to recordings at B.H.Q.
My Sister worked there, and records were kept of the incoming calls, and where from, accidentally caught another, a fairly new member working on his own.